Polygraph

Sunayu•Contractor Site, MD

5d•$131,300 - $237,350•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer provides hands-on engineering, administration, automation, and operational support for enterprise infrastructure across development, integration, test, evaluation, preproduction, and production environments. The role designs, implements, maintains, troubleshoots, and improves cloud and on-premises infrastructure in collaboration with Systems Administration, Platform, Security, Application, and customer teams. It requires a TS/SCI clearance with polygraph and is located at a contractor site in Maryland, with no travel or remote work indicated. The engineer supports platform architecture and the software development life cycle, builds safe and rapid release pipelines, maintains configuration and version-control practices, and automates deployments across development, test, staging, QA, and production. The role also supports continuous integration, containerization, Kubernetes, infrastructure automation, web service infrastructure, service-stack improvement, and operations. It serves as a technical lead for an Agile team, participates in Agile ceremonies, and works across teams to communicate stakeholder and development needs while maintaining confidentiality.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering or Computer Science, with at least 10 years of related experience; education experience does not count toward the experience requirement.
At least 10 years of experience in an Agile development environment.
At least 10 years of system architecture experience, including the ability to read code and understand coding logic to support troubleshooting.
At least 10 years of experience managing and monitoring AWS cloud and virtualized servers for optimal performance in a PaaS environment.
Significant experience administering and engineering enterprise Linux/RHEL infrastructure.
Strong knowledge of Linux environments, including RHEL 6/7/8 and CentOS.
Strong hands-on experience with AWS and/or cloud infrastructure.
Experience with Windows system administration, system monitoring, instrumentation, resiliency, and performance.
Experience with Kubernetes and containerized environments.
Experience with Terraform, Ansible, or comparable infrastructure automation technologies.
Experience with GitLab, CI/CD pipelines, and source-controlled infrastructure.
Fluency with Git.
Familiarity with software development life cycle models, Agile, and DevOps programming methodologies.
Fluent object-oriented programming skills and experience with at least one of Ruby, C, C++, Go, Python, or Java.
Experience integrating Jenkins or Bamboo, Docker, and Kubernetes for automated deployment is preferred in the posting's job summary.
Experience with caching technologies such as Memcache, ActiveMQ, Redis, or APC.
Experience with MySQL clusters, replication, and tuning, and Elasticsearch; Kibana knowledge is a plus.
Knowledge of security practices, networking protocols, firewalls, and PCI compliance.
Strong troubleshooting skills across operating systems, networking, storage, virtualization, and cloud environments.
Ability to acquire an in-depth understanding of large, complex software systems; isolate and reproduce defects; assess risk; and understand varied customer deployments.
Ability to work successfully with customers, developers, testing, project management, and support staff.
Ability to work independently on complex infrastructure problems while collaborating across multiple technical teams.
Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and technical troubleshooting skills.
Clear and precise verbal and written communication skills.
TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.

Nice To Haves

Experience with VMware, OpenStack, Harbor, Rancher, Helm, Cilium, GPFS/Spectrum Scale, Velero, or OpenSearch/Elasticsearch.
Experience with Packer, Terraform, GitOps, and automated AMI or deployment pipelines.
Experience with security hardening, Nessus/ACAS, PKI, RBAC, SAML, and security accreditation requirements.
Kibana knowledge.

Responsibilities

Support platform architectural design, deployment, and debugging throughout the development life cycle.
Build release pipelines that enable fast but safe delivery of business software to production.
Develop and maintain configuration management systems and Git version-control best practices, including branching and merging strategies.
Serve as a technical lead for an Agile team and participate in planning, grooming, product demonstrations, retrospectives, and other team ceremonies.
Automate release deployments across development, test, staging, Quality Assurance, and production environments using scripting languages and automation toolkits.
Set up new sites and applications using configuration management tools such as Puppet and Ansible.
Maintain, upgrade, and patch tracking and documentation software such as Confluence and Jira.
Create, assist with, and implement the design and maintenance of web service infrastructure and deployments.
Analyze service stacks and recommend improvements; identify processes and capabilities that can be streamlined and automated.
Communicate effectively to bridge stakeholder and development requirements.
Assist with support and operations as necessary, including deployment and operational support.
Maintain confidentiality of information being processed, stored, or accessed.
Leverage programming languages such as Python, Ruby, Perl, and Java.
Apply DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering methodologies and automate network infrastructure configuration using Software Defined Networking.
Use a holistic view of service development and deployment architecture, including SLA requirements, high availability, performance optimization, and monitoring.
Set up and configure continuous integration environments using configuration management, containerization, serverless technologies, and Kubernetes.
Architect and develop best practices for build tools, continuous integration tools, and infrastructure automation.
Work cross-functionally across multiple teams.

Benefits

Three medical plan options.
Dental and vision coverage.
FSA, DCFSA, and HSA.
Life and AD&D insurance.
Short-term and long-term disability.
Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
Company-reimbursed training and continuing education assistance of up to $5,000 per year.
Participation in industry conferences and events.
Paid time off (PTO).
11 federal holidays.
401(k) plan with up to a 6% match and 100% immediate vesting.